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Gallery Read the full recipe after the video. Recipe Summary prep: 15 mins total: 25 mins Servings: 6 thai beef
Ingredients Ingredient Checklist 1 1/4 cups jasmine rice 1 can (13.5 ounces) coconut milk Coarse salt 2 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon fish sauce 2 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon soy sauce 1 teaspoon sugar 1 tablespoon vegetable oil 3 garlic cloves, chopped 3 long hot peppers or red jalapeno chiles, seeded and sliced into 2-inch matchsticks 1 1/4 pounds ground beef sirloin 1 cup loosely packed torn fresh basil leaves Lime wedges, for serving
Cook’s Notes Cast-iron skillets and woks are both great for stir-frying. If using another pan, cook the beef in batches. Find fish sauce in the Asian-foods aisle of most supermarkets.
Gallery Read the full recipe after the video.
Recipe Summary prep: 15 mins total: 25 mins Servings: 6 thai beef
Gallery
Read the full recipe after the video.
Read the full recipe after the video.
Recipe Summary prep: 15 mins total: 25 mins Servings: 6
Recipe Summary
prep: 15 mins total: 25 mins
Servings: 6
prep: 15 mins
total: 25 mins
prep:
15 mins
total:
25 mins
Servings: 6
6
thai beef
thai beef
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cups jasmine rice 1 can (13.5 ounces) coconut milk Coarse salt 2 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon fish sauce 2 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon soy sauce 1 teaspoon sugar 1 tablespoon vegetable oil 3 garlic cloves, chopped 3 long hot peppers or red jalapeno chiles, seeded and sliced into 2-inch matchsticks 1 1/4 pounds ground beef sirloin 1 cup loosely packed torn fresh basil leaves Lime wedges, for serving
Directions
In a medium saucepan, combine rice, coconut milk, 3/4 cup water, and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Cover and bring to a boil; reduce to a simmer, cover, and cookuntil rice is tender and liquid has been absorbed, about 25 minutes.
When rice is almost done, combinefish sauce, soy sauce, and sugar in asmall bowl; set aside. Heat a cast-ironskillet or wok over high. Add oil andheat; add garlic and half the chiles. Cook,stirring constantly, 15 seconds. Addbeef and cook, breaking up meat witha wooden spoon, until completelybrowned, about 4 minutes. Add soymixture and cook 30 seconds. Addbasil and remaining chiles and stir tocombine. Serve beef over coconutrice with lime wedges.
Cook’s Notes Cast-iron skillets and woks are both great for stir-frying. If using another pan, cook the beef in batches. Find fish sauce in the Asian-foods aisle of most supermarkets.
Cook’s Notes
Cast-iron skillets and woks are both great for stir-frying. If using another pan, cook the beef in batches. Find fish sauce in the Asian-foods aisle of most supermarkets.
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Add Rating & Review 252 Ratings 5 star values: 86 4 star values: 80 3 star values: 53 2 star values: 23 1 star values: 10
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Add Rating & Review 252 Ratings 5 star values: 86 4 star values: 80 3 star values: 53 2 star values: 23 1 star values: 10
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252 Ratings 5 star values: 86 4 star values: 80 3 star values: 53 2 star values: 23 1 star values: 10
252 Ratings 5 star values: 86 4 star values: 80 3 star values: 53 2 star values: 23 1 star values: 10
252 Ratings 5 star values: 86 4 star values: 80 3 star values: 53 2 star values: 23 1 star values: 10
5 star values: 86 4 star values: 80 3 star values: 53 2 star values: 23 1 star values: 10
Martha Stewart Member Rating: 5 stars 02/28/2019 This recipe was very quick and easy, and it was light and delicious! I used serano chiles instead of jalapeno added a bell pepper for a little more veggies and color. Martha Stewart Member Rating: Unrated 01/04/2016 This was so boring. I try to follow recipes to the letter. I want to see what the author had in mind. I can only think they must have been having a slow day at MS. Not enough flavor. Martha Stewart Member Rating: Unrated 10/02/2014 Hi! I want to tell you that the title of the recipe is with beef and the video shows it with porc. Martha Stewart Member Rating: 4 stars 08/19/2014 Easy and satisfying meal! A few minor changes to the ingredients-peanut oil instead of vegetable oil, light coconut milk for coconut milk, low sodium soy sauce for soy sauce. Drained the meat after browning and before adding the sauce (as another reviewer suggested). Squeezed the lime wedge over the beef and rice just before serving. All the favors worked together perfectly! Martha Stewart Member Rating: Unrated 08/08/2014 WOW! Excellent recipe! I added some green bell pepper for contrast and freshly grated ginger because it can be asian otherwise.... I also added the juice of a lime before serving instead of serving with pieces of lime. Great leftovers fot lunch tomorrow. Martha Stewart Member Rating: 5 stars 04/10/2014 The family loved this! More importantly, the 5-year-old loved it--she didn't even complain about the coconut milk, which is always a problem for her. I left out the chiles but included a pinch of red pepper flakes. I reduced the fish sauce because I was afraid it might overpower the flavors (and smells). Martha Stewart Member Rating: Unrated 01/09/2014 I used flank steak and trimmed the fat off and diced it into small bites, I replaced the fish sauce with Thai Red Chile Garlic Paste and a can of green chilies because that is what I had on hand. I cooked it covered and slow to not dry out the lean flank steak. Also, use reduced sodium soy sauce, (I saw the salty comment.) When it was almost done, I added about 2 Tbsp arrowroot powder to thicken up the excess liquid to create a sauce since I didn't drain the beef after it was brown. Amazing Martha Stewart Member Rating: Unrated 11/06/2013 This was extremely salty. I will not be making this again. The flavors were drowned out by the extreme salty flavors from the soy and fish sauce. I am going back to my favorite basil pork recipe, this is going in the trash. Martha Stewart Member Rating: Unrated 09/06/2011 This is a house favorite-the coconut rice really makes it. To get more veggies in the dish, I stir fry 2 carrots cut in short matchsticks, a medium onion cut in thin crescents, 7-8 thinly sliced mushrooms then add about 1 cup of frozen peas - to avoid overcooking the veggies remove from the wok before cooking the beef. I also add 1 T grated ginger with the garlic and peppers. Proceed with cooking and seasoning beef per the recipe, add the veggies back in at the end. So delicious and satisfying. Martha Stewart Member Rating: Unrated 09/02/2011 would cilantro be good in this instead of the basil? i want to take this to a more citrusy level rather than traditional. Martha Stewart Member Rating: Unrated 06/26/2011 I don't mind if people like fusion food.... but claiming to something which is not correct, I don't think it is right way to learn about other nationality. I do cook fusion food at home too.... but I would not claim that I cook french or Italian when I use Thai noodle rather than italian pasta to cook pasta dishes. Also, we don't eat every dish with Lemon... (in fact we don't use lemon at all... we use lime. If you are good cook, you would know the difference.... Martha Stewart Member Rating: Unrated 06/26/2011 Loved the coconut rice. Who cares about authenticity? It's all about flavor and taste. The coconut rice works really well with this dish. Yummy and easy. I will make it again! Martha Stewart Member Rating: Unrated 06/26/2011 Just want to share that Thai people never eat coconut rice as main dish.... If it would happen, it would only be for desserts with fresh Mango, Durian or custard.... For this kind of dish, we normally go with plain rice - just cook rice with water. Jelapino Chillies are acceptable, but pls. be careful it would be too spicy.... even I am Thai, I have to be careful when I cook with this mexican spice. Martha Stewart Member Rating: Unrated 02/17/2011 I love this recipe, I make it all the time! Especially when I want to make something relatively quick and easy. Though I do add extra peppers, and I would suggest draining the meat before adding the sauce. Makes the dish a little healthier and actually helps add flavor because the sauce isn't diluted by the beef fat. Martha Stewart Member Rating: Unrated 01/31/2011 Loved this. I didn't have basil leaves so I used bokchoy. I also added green onions, dried basil and some mushrooms to it. Many new flavors to me, and I liked the new experience. Martha Stewart Member Rating: Unrated 12/10/2010 This was just bland... not horrible, but definitely not great. There's no spice or heat to this dish which was surprising to me since it has 3 chiles. In the end it was edible but not worth a do-over. :-( Martha Stewart Member Rating: Unrated 12/10/2010 Delicious!! All of the FLAVORS incorporate!! I live here in Alaska and found the ingredients no problem! I also added fresh mushrooms and onion. CREATE!! Martha Stewart Member Rating: Unrated 11/08/2010 L-A-M-E. After investing in the peppers (which aren't easy to find here), Jasmine rice, fish sauce, and the cup of basil, I would say that this dish is not worth the cost of the ingredients. I was left wondering where the taste was suppose to be. It was all such a let down because the TV chef RAVED about the smell and taste. I ended up adding some fire from chili sauce and some Thai paste to try to improve it. You could probably get more taste from a box of Hamburger Helper. Martha Stewart Member Rating: Unrated 10/02/2010 I finally made this tonight and it was good, but didn't knock my socks off. Next time I will make some alterations while sticking closer to the recipe--I thought I had fish sauce until it was too late to get some, so substituted oyster sauce; I used more meat and less chiles than recommended, I didn't use Jasmine rice, and the meat was a little greasy. The next time I want to add some salt, red onion, more spice (chilis), more basil, and use non-ground beef. I can see it becoming a favorite... Martha Stewart Member Rating: Unrated 06/28/2010 Fantastic recipe. My grocery store didn't have red jalapeno chiles, so I used green... it still tasted great. Next time, I'll probably try to experiment with leaner meat and light coconut milk, possibly adding a veggie or two. All in all, it was easy and delicious and I will definitely be making this again! Martha Stewart Member Rating: Unrated 05/25/2010 I love this recipe! It's a really delicious and different way to cook boring old ground beef. Martha Stewart Member Rating: Unrated 04/07/2010 This is a great reicpe, fast, easy, and tastes great! I live in an area where asian/thai ingredients are plentiful and was looking for new recipes to try. I used chicken cut into bite-size pieces and needless to say I was very pleased with the outcome, so was my husband ! Martha Stewart Member Rating: Unrated 03/22/2010 This too is one of my favorites. I make it almost weekly its so easy and tasty. It's now a favorite of my sister as well. I use ground turkey and like to add sliced bell peppers and onions in order to get more veggies in. It's good even without the basil, which I dont always have on hand. Martha Stewart Member Rating: Unrated 01/16/2010 DELICIOUS!! I have made this over and over. Often recommend it to friends as well. Great with ground turkey and ground beef. I wouldn't change a thing about this recipe.Martha Stewart Member
Rating: 5 stars 02/28/2019
This recipe was very quick and easy, and it was light and delicious! I used serano chiles instead of jalapeno added a bell pepper for a little more veggies and color.
Rating: 5 stars
Rating: Unrated 01/04/2016
This was so boring. I try to follow recipes to the letter. I want to see what the author had in mind. I can only think they must have been having a slow day at MS. Not enough flavor.
Rating: Unrated
Rating: Unrated 10/02/2014
Hi! I want to tell you that the title of the recipe is with beef and the video shows it with porc.
Rating: 4 stars 08/19/2014
Easy and satisfying meal! A few minor changes to the ingredients-peanut oil instead of vegetable oil, light coconut milk for coconut milk, low sodium soy sauce for soy sauce. Drained the meat after browning and before adding the sauce (as another reviewer suggested). Squeezed the lime wedge over the beef and rice just before serving. All the favors worked together perfectly!
Rating: 4 stars
Rating: Unrated 08/08/2014
WOW! Excellent recipe! I added some green bell pepper for contrast and freshly grated ginger because it can be asian otherwise…. I also added the juice of a lime before serving instead of serving with pieces of lime. Great leftovers fot lunch tomorrow.
Rating: 5 stars 04/10/2014
The family loved this! More importantly, the 5-year-old loved it–she didn’t even complain about the coconut milk, which is always a problem for her. I left out the chiles but included a pinch of red pepper flakes. I reduced the fish sauce because I was afraid it might overpower the flavors (and smells).
Rating: Unrated 01/09/2014
I used flank steak and trimmed the fat off and diced it into small bites, I replaced the fish sauce with Thai Red Chile Garlic Paste and a can of green chilies because that is what I had on hand. I cooked it covered and slow to not dry out the lean flank steak. Also, use reduced sodium soy sauce, (I saw the salty comment.) When it was almost done, I added about 2 Tbsp arrowroot powder to thicken up the excess liquid to create a sauce since I didn’t drain the beef after it was brown. Amazing
Rating: Unrated 11/06/2013
This was extremely salty. I will not be making this again. The flavors were drowned out by the extreme salty flavors from the soy and fish sauce. I am going back to my favorite basil pork recipe, this is going in the trash.
Rating: Unrated 09/06/2011
This is a house favorite-the coconut rice really makes it. To get more veggies in the dish, I stir fry 2 carrots cut in short matchsticks, a medium onion cut in thin crescents, 7-8 thinly sliced mushrooms then add about 1 cup of frozen peas - to avoid overcooking the veggies remove from the wok before cooking the beef. I also add 1 T grated ginger with the garlic and peppers. Proceed with cooking and seasoning beef per the recipe, add the veggies back in at the end. So delicious and satisfying.
Rating: Unrated 09/02/2011
would cilantro be good in this instead of the basil? i want to take this to a more citrusy level rather than traditional.
Rating: Unrated 06/26/2011
I don’t mind if people like fusion food…. but claiming to something which is not correct, I don’t think it is right way to learn about other nationality. I do cook fusion food at home too…. but I would not claim that I cook french or Italian when I use Thai noodle rather than italian pasta to cook pasta dishes. Also, we don’t eat every dish with Lemon… (in fact we don’t use lemon at all… we use lime. If you are good cook, you would know the difference….
Loved the coconut rice. Who cares about authenticity? It’s all about flavor and taste. The coconut rice works really well with this dish. Yummy and easy. I will make it again!
Just want to share that Thai people never eat coconut rice as main dish…. If it would happen, it would only be for desserts with fresh Mango, Durian or custard…. For this kind of dish, we normally go with plain rice - just cook rice with water. Jelapino Chillies are acceptable, but pls. be careful it would be too spicy…. even I am Thai, I have to be careful when I cook with this mexican spice.
Rating: Unrated 02/17/2011
I love this recipe, I make it all the time! Especially when I want to make something relatively quick and easy. Though I do add extra peppers, and I would suggest draining the meat before adding the sauce. Makes the dish a little healthier and actually helps add flavor because the sauce isn’t diluted by the beef fat.
Rating: Unrated 01/31/2011
Loved this. I didn’t have basil leaves so I used bokchoy. I also added green onions, dried basil and some mushrooms to it. Many new flavors to me, and I liked the new experience.
Rating: Unrated 12/10/2010
This was just bland… not horrible, but definitely not great. There’s no spice or heat to this dish which was surprising to me since it has 3 chiles. In the end it was edible but not worth a do-over. :-(
Delicious!! All of the FLAVORS incorporate!! I live here in Alaska and found the ingredients no problem! I also added fresh mushrooms and onion. CREATE!!
Rating: Unrated 11/08/2010
L-A-M-E. After investing in the peppers (which aren’t easy to find here), Jasmine rice, fish sauce, and the cup of basil, I would say that this dish is not worth the cost of the ingredients. I was left wondering where the taste was suppose to be. It was all such a let down because the TV chef RAVED about the smell and taste. I ended up adding some fire from chili sauce and some Thai paste to try to improve it. You could probably get more taste from a box of Hamburger Helper.
Rating: Unrated 10/02/2010
I finally made this tonight and it was good, but didn’t knock my socks off. Next time I will make some alterations while sticking closer to the recipe–I thought I had fish sauce until it was too late to get some, so substituted oyster sauce; I used more meat and less chiles than recommended, I didn’t use Jasmine rice, and the meat was a little greasy. The next time I want to add some salt, red onion, more spice (chilis), more basil, and use non-ground beef. I can see it becoming a favorite…
Rating: Unrated 06/28/2010
Fantastic recipe. My grocery store didn’t have red jalapeno chiles, so I used green… it still tasted great. Next time, I’ll probably try to experiment with leaner meat and light coconut milk, possibly adding a veggie or two. All in all, it was easy and delicious and I will definitely be making this again!
Rating: Unrated 05/25/2010
I love this recipe! It’s a really delicious and different way to cook boring old ground beef.
Rating: Unrated 04/07/2010
This is a great reicpe, fast, easy, and tastes great! I live in an area where asian/thai ingredients are plentiful and was looking for new recipes to try. I used chicken cut into bite-size pieces and needless to say I was very pleased with the outcome, so was my husband !
Rating: Unrated 03/22/2010
This too is one of my favorites. I make it almost weekly its so easy and tasty. It’s now a favorite of my sister as well. I use ground turkey and like to add sliced bell peppers and onions in order to get more veggies in. It’s good even without the basil, which I dont always have on hand.
Rating: Unrated 01/16/2010
DELICIOUS!! I have made this over and over. Often recommend it to friends as well. Great with ground turkey and ground beef. I wouldn’t change a thing about this recipe.
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